ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT JAMES ONADIJI ONASAYO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Obafemi Awolowo University | Ife, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 3, SDG 4 & UNAI 3
" Creative thinking, empathy, and social innovation are my core values for seeing a change in society as I advocate for sickle cell disorder eradication.
Being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will fuel up my drive and build more capacity to impact society as I advocate for sickle cell disorder eradication.
I also believe being a part of the Millennium Fellowship will also equip me with the skills needed to contribute to a global change. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Compassion for Humanity
I am working on a Campus project along side other Fellows of my campus.
*Project Description*
Compassion for Humanity's project promotes high-quality education and healthy living among children, adults, and the elderly. The project seeks to give sustainable solution to trauma by raising public awareness and educating the public about trauma and trauma-related issues, causes, and ways to handle them and by empowering people via education and skill development for the advancement of Humanity. It briefly addresses problems the general public faces daily due to those issues and difficulties.
About the Millennium Fellow
James Onasayo is a bright final-year physiotherapy student at the College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Born in Nigeria, he resides in the city of Lagos.
James is a leader and he has served in various organizations as a volunteer both locally and internationally. He volunteered in time past at editions of the special fun fitness Olympics. He is also passionate about Human rights.
He is a sickle cell advocate at the Sickle Cell Club, Ife, OAU, and is passionate about seeing sickle cell disorder reduce to the barest minimum.
During his years at the university, he, alongside his colleague have implemented several projects in the area of sickle cell and human rights advocacy.
